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Rheumatology - Monoarticuloarthropathy
Gout Disease
- Acute Inflammatory Monoarthritis
- Epidemiology
- Primarily in Males
- Pathophysiology
- Precipitation of Monosodium Urate Crystals
- Underexcretion of Uric Acid
- Overproduction of Uric Acid
- Negatively Birefringent, Needle-Shaped
- Symptoms
- Swollen, Red, Painful Joint
- Asymmetric Joint Distribution
- Podagra
- Tophus
- After Large Meal or Alcohol
2 mins
Gout Treatment
- Acute (Acute-angle)
- NSAIDs
- Glucocorticoids
- Colchicine
- Impairs Leukocyte Chemotaxis
- Chronic Gout (Crone Goat)
- Inhibit Xanthine Oxidase
- Allopurinol
- Febuxostat
- Inhibit Reabsorption of Uric Acid
- Probenecid
1 min
Pseudogout
- Pathophysiology
- > 50 Years Old
- Arthritis of Large Joints (Classically the Knee)
- Calcium Pyrophosphate Crystals
- Diagnosis
- Positively Birefringent
- Chondrocalcinosis (On X-ray)
- Treatment
- NSAIDs
- Colchicine
- Steroids
1 min
Neisseria gonorrhoeae Disease
- Signs & Symptoms
- Dysuria
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
- Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome
- Neonatal Conjunctivitis
- Pharyngitis
- Septic Arthritis
- Tenosynovitis
- Pustules On Hands And Feet
- Treatment
- Ceftriaxone
- Azithromycin
- Doxycycline
- Considerations
- C5-9 Complement Deficiency (Recurrent Infections)
2 mins
Staphylococcus aureus Disease
- Skin Infections
- Impetigo
- Abscesses
- Exfoliative Toxin
- Scalded Skin Syndrome
- Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSST 1)
- Binds to MHC II and T Cell Receptor
- Food Poisoning
- Acute Bacterial Endocarditis
- Pneumonia
- Osteomyelitis
2 mins
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